bands who should be huge

[happiness and harmony]

i mean like multi-platinum, arena-level huge

another way of asking this is which current bands would have been huge if they had existed 20 or 30 years earlier

queens is probably the best example. if they had been around in the 70s they would have been one of the biggest rock bands of the day: sweet melodies, radio-friendly hooks, mostly short songs but with loads of variety, and ample live jamming

to that extent villains is probably the album of theirs that would be the best fit in the early 80s dance scene

i think mastodon is another good example, if they had been around in the 70s or 80s they would have been kings of the underground and then broken out with the hunter the way metallica did with the black album. their last three albums all have yea songs that would have been big hits on rock radio if rock radio still existed really

[happiness and harmony]

clutch is another strong possibility though they are such a straight-ahead rock and roll band that i wonder if they would always have had the same level of popularity. the motorhead of their time

and pepper-era COC. stare too long would have been a massive folk crossover hit in about 1977

[zim]

anal cunt

[Verbal]

dusto will you post one or two songs by those bands because ive never really heard them. apart from maybe one qotsa song 13 years ago

[happiness and harmony]

based on the first sentence i am convinced you are being sarcastic but based on the second i am not sure

[Verbal]

i was being serious

definitely never heard anything by clutch. although ive heard people talk about them here. i dont even know what genre of music they are

i think there was a popular song by qotsa about 13years ago that i rememeber hearing at the time. but dont think ive heard anything else by them

[Verbal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE

[Methuselah Honeysuckle]

Orange goblin probably would have done well in the 70s

[happiness and harmony]

i'll second that

[happiness and harmony]

i was being serious

definitely never heard anything by clutch. although ive heard people talk about them here. i dont even know what genre of music they are

i think there was a popular song by qotsa about 13years ago that i rememeber hearing at the time. but dont think ive heard anything else by them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_hTyeuwAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Too7nGq_GNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exa0CzlCb3Y

[Mesarthim]

I always thought Iced Earth and Blind Guardian ought to be huge in the states but they are lucky if they draw 1500 per show.

[Lavabug]

Gun - fucking amazing hard rock from 1968 that blows away a lot of 70[s stuff, way ahead of their time. May be a clapton/cream ripoff to some people but I like them.

Black Merda - never made it huge, but amazing all-black psych/funky rock band with themes about black oppression in the height of the 60's

Sweet Smoke - fantastic psych stuff like Hawkwind but even more eclectic.

Riot - Should've been America's Iron Maiden or Motorhead. Mid to late 70's hard rock proto-NWOBHM/speed metal with riffs, hooks, attitude and melodies that are up there with early EVH. Listen to the album Narita and be blown away that the album came out way before all the 80's metal trends.

That new 'nam-themed stoner doom band Devil's Witches would've been pretty rad to hear as a proto-metal band in the late 60's or 70's.